As part of our 125th anniversary, we are celebrating authors who published their first work with LUP and have gone on to have successful writing careers. Here is Alison Welsby, Editorial Director at LUP, in conversation with the acclaimed and award-winning crime fiction writer, Ann Cleeves, whose first published work was a chapter in LUP’s … Continue reading
T. S. Eliot Studies Annual: Frances Dickey in conversation with Jahan Ramazani
Volume 4 of the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual celebrates the centenary of The Waste Land, with free to read articles and an exclusive Q&A with our contributor, Jahan Ramazani.
Pavilion Author Q&A: Janette Ayachi
For the latest interview in the series, we chatted to Janette Ayachi, author of Hand Over Mouth Music (2019) to discuss her collection and the disruptive pleasures of writing which flow throughout her work.
Pavilion Author Q&A: Martha Sprackland
For the latest interview in the series, we chatted to Martha Sprackland, author of Citadel (2020) to discuss her collection, collective anxiety, psychedelic experiences and visual art, examining how these interplay within her recent writing.
Some Bright Eternity: Shelley at 200
‘Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned: now he knows whether there is a God or no’. So wrote a Tory reviewer after Shelley’s premature death. Cruel as the remark is, the reviewer accidentally lights upon the questions that had preoccupied the poet throughout his short life: is there a God and is there life after death? Madeleine Callaghan discusses this as a crucial facet of her new book, Eternity in British Romantic Poetry for the bicentenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's death.